August 10th, 2010
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Doctor Who: Time and The Rani DVD
The Rani has taken control of the planet Lakertya and forced the peaceful Lakertyans to build a rocket silo-cum laboratory base into a cliff face. She is aided by the Tetraps, a race of bat-like creatures, and plans to fire a rocket loaded with loyhargil, a substance with the same properties as strange matter, at an asteroid completely composed of the latter.
As a preliminary to this she has created a huge artificial brain and kidnapped a number of geniuses – Including Pasteur and Einstein from Earth – to imbue it with the ability first to identify and then to calculate the correct way to create loyhargil for her in the laboratory. The newly-regenerated Doctor and Mel must stop her and save the planet…
Special Features Include : Commentaries, Behind the Scenes, Makings of, Photo Gallery, Storyboards and Subtitles
Release date: 13/09/2010
Original VHS cover and wording
After an attack by the evil Rani, the TARDIS crash-lands on the desolate planet of Lakertya. On the floor of the console room, the Doctor begins his sixth regeneration…
In his post-regenerative confusion, the Doctor is separated from his young companion Mel and tricked into assisting the Rani in her megalomanic scheme to construct a giant time manipulator.
Lost on the barren surface of the planet, Mel has to avoid the Rani’s ingenious traps and her monstrous, bat-like servants, the Tetraps. She joins forces with a rebel faction among the Lakertyans, desperate to end the Rani’s control of their planet.
The Doctor must recover his wits in time to avoid becoming a permanent part of the Rani’s insane plan to drain the genius of the greatest scientific minds in the Universe.
Originally transmitted 7 September 1987 to 28 September 1987.
STARRING
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Bonnie Langford (Me/), Kate O’Mara (The Rani), Mark Greenstreet (Ikona), Wanda Ventham (Faroon), Donald Pickering (Beyus), Richard
Gauntlett (Urak), Karen Clegg (Sam), John Segal (Lanisha), Peter Tuddenham, Jack! Webb (Voices)
PRODUCTION
Pip and Jane Baker (writers),
Geoff Powell (designer),
Keff McCulloch (incidental music),
Andrew Cartmel (script editor),
John Nathan-Turner (producer)
Andrew Morgan (director).
Interesting facts for the original VHS release…
Time and the Ran/ features the first appearance of Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor. The previous incumbent, Colin Baker, was unavailable to record a regeneration sequence, so McCoy wore a curly blond wig and the Sixth Doctor’s costume in the pre-credits sequence, his face distorted by a video effect.
Among the costumes seen in the TARDIS wardrobe were items of clothing worn by the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Doctors.
Some scenes were recorded with Sylvester McCoy wearing his glasses but after some debate it was decided this was inappropriate and the sequences were replaced in the final version. The actor’s short-sightedness occasionally caused problems during recording.
The working title for the story was Strange Matter, named after the material the Rani is attempting to duplicate. The substitute material is called loyhargil – an anagram of ‘Holy Grail’
The “regeneration” from the 6th to 7th Doctor..
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31 Responses to Doctor Who: Time and The Rani
Posted by: Miss O’donovan September 12th, 2011
I think the episode should only star Colin baker in a 2011 series of this but dressed as the 7th doc I think it would be fantastic then maybe at the end of this should regenerate into the 12th doctor as Nicholas Lyndhurst as he starts his new adventures
Posted by: gary March 16th, 2011
i got this and mark of the rani on dvd today. this one was pretty rubbish compared to mark. you know what they say, sequals are never as good as the original!!
Posted by: cyberleader4 November 21st, 2010
is this ep good hopely get at xmas.love the video
Posted by: superdalek November 17th, 2010
Love that vid. It is a brill episode.
Posted by: ross campbell November 13th, 2010
This is a brill episode
Posted by: Angel Tim November 6th, 2010
“Your right It was Sylvester McCoy in a wig”
Yeah, I thought that aswell and it does look like that and thanks for answering my questions BooBoo!
Posted by: booboo November 5th, 2010
Don’t know
The BBC controller didn’t like it so he cancelled it
Your right It was Sylvester McCoy in a wig
Posted by: Angel Tim November 5th, 2010
I’ve got questions about classical Doctor Who.
1.Why don’t they have faces in the title sequences anymore?
2.Why was Doctor Who cancled for about 18 years with the moive in between? (question has nothing to do with the moive)
Hope you answer them soon
PS:I’ve heard that the short clip of the sixth doctor in the episode above was NOT Collin Baker.
Posted by: ross campbell October 30th, 2010
McCoy was alright in the 80′s but in the movie he was FANTASTIC!!!!!!!
Posted by: cyberguy October 26th, 2010
7th doctor is the best
Posted by: McGann is the Doctor. September 26th, 2010
Somehow Id imagined the DVD cover would be yellowish, the Lakyertans. Sylveste is marvellous, each and every time I see anything with him in it Im amazed, and the Dr Who episodes from his era, though I am yet to obtain all the desired DVDs and watch them (birthday, 2Entertain has to release Dragonfire and the Greatest show, and I still have to finnish Colin Bakers last series, but now is not the time) I have had a good look at these late-80s Who stories and Ive been very surprised, to say the least. Like in COF whe Ace just dives into the sea!
Posted by: alex September 18th, 2010
jgot this today at asda in portsmouth
for £13.97
and i just finished part one
cool introduction at the start
good snimation
part one rating : 9/10
Posted by: Tim M September 17th, 2010
‘Time and the Rani’ is another great Doctor Who DVD to get. I greatly liked the easter egg with Colin Baker’s face morphing into Sylvester McCoy’s added into the ‘original’ regeneration sequence. If only they could have achieved that back in 1987 as it’s a great affect!
Posted by: who crazy! September 15th, 2010
Its out. Im gonna check on dvd or amazon.com to see how much it is. Even though it is a bit rubbish im still getting it.
Posted by: CYBERLEADER 4 September 15th, 2010
good dvd good price
Posted by: Tim M August 18th, 2010
I watched ‘Time and the Rani’ again recently (on VHS) and surprisingly I actually enjoyed it. McCoy’s 7th Dr is enjoyable to watch, he does play it a bit slapstick at times, but is nonetheless quite entertaining. Kate O Mara is great again as the Rani, plus the Tetraps aren’t bad monsters for their time (1987). I even find Langford’s Mel bearable. Oh and It’s well directed to. But for nostalgic reasons I like it. I was only 10 when it was first transmitted and I greatly enjoyed the story then.
Time and the Rani 7/10
Posted by: king gerbil August 16th, 2010
looks wkd
Posted by: fez’s are cool August 11th, 2010
been looking forward to this release for a while gotta love the 7th doctor. regards to river song being the rani i find very unlikely, i believe she is a creation of the daleks like bracewell was, we never saw her actually kill that dalek in the big bang did we
Posted by: Felix August 11th, 2010
i might get this as the cover looks cool and the rani will return becuz i think river song is the rani
ps i might get the mark of the rani as well becuz i heard that is a really good story
Posted by: alex August 11th, 2010
on the dvd cover
the tetrap looks cute
[well not like the one on the video at least]
Posted by: Dave August 10th, 2010
not as good as the mark of the rani,i think rani WILL return because i believe riversong is the rani.
Posted by: Anonymous August 10th, 2010
I like this one
Posted by: ben August 10th, 2010
i think it looks good i am going get it
Posted by: alex August 10th, 2010
the covers quiet nice
Posted by: who crazy! August 10th, 2010
Ive watched this story before and its rubbish!
Posted by: AlphaOmega August 10th, 2010
harry doolan: That’s only because Colin Baker didn’t wanna do it.
Posted by: harry doolan July 30th, 2010
the regeneration is bad!!!!!!!! the 6th doctor is realy sylvester in a wig!
which was very poor
Posted by: Steven June 9th, 2010
I have mixed feelings about this story. The regeneration is lousy, but I absolutely adore the Rani impersonating Mel, the squeaky voice Kate O’Mara puts on is very funny. The Rani’s globe-traps are really cool. But the Tetraps are not so good, especially the toungue effect. And maybe there’s a liitle to much screaming from Bonnie?
Posted by: Sontar 7 May 31st, 2010
Is this a good story? I’ve heard cliches that it’s terrible but is it actually?
Posted by: booboo May 25th, 2010
yes
We will have a release schedule shortly where things have been announced but full details not given
This is one of them
Posted by: alex May 25th, 2010
this page is a bit small